Hyperliquid Whale Shorts Exceed Longs by $543 Million in Oct. 18 Snapshot

Hyperliquid whale short positions exceeded longs by $543 million in an Oct. 18 snapshot, with shorts accounting for 53.37% of $8.061 billion in total positions.

Shorts were valued at $4.302 billion, while longs totaled $3.759 billion. Longs made up the remaining 46.63% of the total.

The long-to-short ratio was 0.87, comparing the dollar value of long positions with short positions. That means long value was about 87 cents for every dollar in short value.

Long positions had positive P&L of $158 million, while shorts had negative P&L of $117 million. Address 0x5b5d..60 held a 5x cross-margin short on Ether (ETH), entered at $2,322.65. The position showed an unrealized loss of $8.8801 million.

The total was about $161 million above the Oct. 15 snapshot of Hyperliquid whale positions, which put the figure at $7.9 billion.